In the Palace of Mercy and Grace, the light of candles flickered against the faint atmosphere flowing above the hall. The soft light shone on the figures of the three people in the hall, stretching the lonely shadow slanted.

It was so quiet that no one dared to break the heavy atmosphere that had been stalemate for a long time. Panting slightly, his eyes staring at the ground below for a moment.

The cold wind blew from the wide open hall, like a thorn on the queen mother's cheek, she couldn't help but reach out and pull the collar, although it was the New Year, but this climate did not have the slightest intention to change.

The people of the Tea Palace carefully brought the tea inside, put the freshly brewed Longjing on the table, and retreated and left.

The Queen Mother paced to the table and stroked the temperature on the tea wall with her index finger, but after a moment, she retracted her hand into her sleeve.

"Ji Qiu, you give the mourning family a reason to forgive you." Leaning over and sitting on the wisteria chair, his indifferent eyes glanced at Ji Qiu, picked up the teacup and took a few sips.

Between the words, there was cold indifference.

Ji Qiu fell to her knees in response, and her moon-white robe was like a cold moonlight, showing that she was lonely at this time. The hands covered by the wide sleeves were clenched together, and they were burned on the cold ground, not caring about any pain.

Raised his eyes slightly to look at the Queen Mother, the corners of his lips swept a pale and bitter smile, and then, the raised mantis knocked heavily, and replied in a slightly low voice, "The slave is guilty, and I don't expect the Queen Mother to forgive." I only hope that the Queen Mother will spare the slave's family for the sake of the slave maid's loyal service to the master for many years, and they should not bear the unjustified disaster for the slave and maid. After speaking, Ji Qiu kowtowed again.

I know that my death is coming, so why bother to ask for what I don't have? All that has been done is nothing more than for the sake of the innocent relatives, if he can be forgiven by the Queen Mother once he dies, then Ji Qiu must have no hesitation.

Xiu eyebrows raised slightly, pinched the two fingers of the tea lid and paused slightly, the Queen Mother glanced at Ji Qiu, and then fixed her eyes on the jade cicada beside her, and was silent for a long time.

The tea in the teacup had already turned cold, and the Queen Mother asked faintly, "Jade Cicada, the mourning family asked you, do you know that Ji Qiu took poison without authorization?" After a few days of getting along, you really haven't noticed the strangeness in this? ”

Ji Qiu is a person who practices martial arts, and her complexion is inevitably three points better than that of normal people. After taking the poison, her face will become pale and bloodless, she doesn't believe that the jade cicada, who has always been careful, would be so careless this time and miss this biggest loophole.

Jade Cicada lifted her skirt and knelt beside Ji Qiu, she couldn't see a trace of emotion in her cold eyes, but the firmness embedded in her eyes showed her inner calmness at this time.

"The slave and maid are derelict in their duties, and I hope the queen mother will punish them." When the words fell, he leaned over and bowed to the ground a few times.

Listening to the words of the two people on the ground, the Queen Mother glanced at them thoughtfully, put the tea cup in her hand on the table, stood up and paced in front of Ji Qiu, her eyes staring at her pale cheeks for a moment.

"Jade Cicada, prepare a three-foot white silk, dagger, and dove poison."

The jade cicada trembled slightly, she looked at the Queen Mother with wide eyes in disbelief, although this was an expected result, but why was it so unbearable when she really heard it, and captured the sharpness of the Queen Mother's eyes that could not be ignored, and she could only reply on the ground.

In the dormitory of Yonghe Palace, Ling Yun used some white porridge and some medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor under Su Jinyu's service, but Ling Xiao sat on the soft couch and looked at the quiet night outside the window, and his heart couldn't be happy.

casually turned his head to the side, and saw the figures of the two people on the bed, but he had no choice but to add a few traces of bitterness.

"The emperor hasn't talked to the prince for a long time, so the slave and maid will go down to make a pot of tea, so that the emperor and the prince can have a good chat while the time comes." Su Jinyu put away the used dishes and chopsticks, and when she was about to get up, she noticed that Ling Yun had already woken up, and the injury on her arm was unwilling for him to know. After repeated efforts, he barely put himself on the edge of the tray and retreated with a smile.

The door of the hall closed, Ling Yun lifted the futon covering his body, got up and walked to the soft couch where Ling Xiao was.

"I've slept for so long, and I woke up at this time, would it be a little too long?" Ling Xiao turned his head to Ling Yun and said.

Ling Yun pinched his sore neck and said lightly, "The longer it takes, the more I can see." If it weren't for this mistake, I wouldn't have thought of any way to test the loyalty of those ministers. Only this time, I didn't expect to almost hurt her, but luckily you made it back on time, otherwise I don't know what would have happened. As he spoke, Ling Yun followed Ling Xiao's eyes and looked out of the Xuan window.

"I took one of her arms off, do you really think it's worth it?" Ling Xiao chuckled a few times, "When are you going to tell her the truth, I can deceive her for the rest of my life, but you may not be able to do it, big brother." ”

The truth? What is the truth.

The truth is that he only woke up after Su Jinyu was abolished by Ling Xiao. If he hadn't learned about this, he wouldn't have planned the next series of illusions, so that everyone would have misunderstood that he was really sick.

But, can he really explain it to Su Jinyu? He did this only to probe the loyalty and ambition of the ministers of the court, and he used the huge harem as a barrier to indirectly investigate the so-called people's hearts and minds.

In order not to arouse any suspicion, he followed the instructions of the imperial doctor to take a patch of sleeping pills every morning and an antidote to sleep in the evening. In this way, no one can notice it.

And Ling Xiao's resolute and resolute behavior made the Queen Mother and others even more fearful, and without his permission, they did not dare to rashly step into the door of the dormitory.

Recalling the events of the past half month, it seems like a dream.

"What can I tell her, no matter how much I explain, I'm afraid she'll complain. Even though the day was groggy and dazed, I could hear her expectation. Ling Yun said calmly, it was not that he didn't want to explain all this, but this explanation was at the cost of Su Jinyu's sincerity, and he would not take this risk.

Ling Xiao looked at Ling Yun, his lips opened slightly, but when he reached his mouth, he turned into a faint smile.

There are some things that he knows he can't say at this time. There are some things that he has always been unwilling to face. Just like Su Jinyu, after coming back from outside the palace this time, he always regarded her as transparent and pretended to turn a blind eye.

When Su Jinyu returned from making tea, when she walked outside the door and stretched out her hand to knock on the door, she vaguely heard the sound of talking from inside, and withdrew her hand and waited outside the hall door for a while.

When the words stopped, she handed the tea set into the hands of another palace man and led her into the dormitory.

When Ling Yun and Ling Xiao saw Su Jinyu come in, they glanced at each other, and then cut off the topic they had just said. One looked at the night outside the window alone, and the other looked at the direction Su Jinyu came from, and there was silence.

Su Jinyu and the palace people owe, "The emperor is auspicious, the prince is auspicious." Then he placed the prepared tea sets on several tables on the soft couch, and took a stove with an open flame to burn water.

When it was ready, Su Jinyu poured each of them a cup of tea and waited beside them. But her eyes didn't leave Ling Yun for half a minute, and she looked at it thoughtfully.

Ling Yun took a sip of tea, noticing the scorching light in his eyes from Su Jinyu, he chuckled lightly, and Fang opened his mouth to ask, "Is there something on my face, why do you look at me with such eyes." As he spoke, he reached out and touched his cheek, pausing for a moment as his fingertips swept over the stubble of his jaw.

Su Jinyu didn't say a word, she still looked at Ling Yun with a heavy face.

Ling Xiao was attracted by Ling Yun's words, and when he saw Su Jinyu's strange face, he frowned slightly.

"When do you still have to deceive the slave maid, the emperor has recovered a few days ago, hasn't he?" Her tone trembled, her eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and Su Jinyu tried to calm her inner throbbing.

Ling Yun and Ling Xiao were both surprised, and couldn't help but look at each other.

"The emperor forgot that the slave maid had studied medicine, how could a person who had been in a coma for half a month be like the emperor, who woke up and said what he said, and after eating, he sat here in such a good spirit and talked and laughed." Once this truth was revealed, Su Jinyu was also extremely angry, and her eyes instantly withdrew from Ling Yun's body.

She never thought that Ling Yun would deceive her for so long. These days, like a fool, she keeps praying that nothing will happen to him. But he trampled her sincerity on the ground, and was unwilling and unwilling to give her any guidance.

Ji Qiu once asked her what would happen if Ling Yun stopped believing her. That answer had been lingering in her mind for a long time, but she never expected it to come so quickly, so that she didn't have time to prepare.

Ji Qiu, Ji Qiu, when she thought of Ji Qiu again, Su Jinyu realized what she had missed when she went out. Looking at the entire Yonghe Palace, except for Shang Xi and Qingyun, Ji Qiu is the person who cares about Lingyun the most, why is there no trace of it this time.

Don't...... Could it be that what I saw just now wasn't dazzling, could it be that the person taken away by the Queen Mother was really Ji Qiu?

The mist that blindfolded his eyes condensed little by little, and finally he couldn't bear it and slipped down. Su Jinyu reached out to wipe the tears from her face, trying to squeeze out a smile.

"What am I in your heart?" After speaking, she no longer glanced at Ling Yun, turned her head and rushed out of the dormitory.

Ling Yun stretched out his hand to grab Su Jinyu's footsteps, but what he grabbed into his hand was only a cold air that was cold to the bone. He never thought that something would go wrong at this juncture.

In her heart, she was preparing how to explain to her, but this time became his default in her eyes.

The sight was already Su Jinyu's vanishing figure, Ling Xiao laughed at himself, when they tried to hide it in every possible way, others had already seen everything. To do so is nothing but self-deception.

"Explain it to her, I think she'll understand your painstaking efforts." Ling Xiao patted Ling Yun's shoulder and said softly.

Ling Yun raised his eyes and glanced at Ling Xiao, and after quickly walking to the screen and taking the robe and dressing it neatly, he hurriedly chased after Su Jinyu, watching Ling Xiao's indifferent reaction, and urged a few words.

The door of the palace was suddenly pushed open, and a palace man with a raw face fell to the ground in a panic, his body trembling uncontrollably, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother wants to execute Ji Qiu, and please move the emperor quickly." ”